Byzantine Empire
Christianity, according to the Eastern Orthodox tradition.
English speaking people use the Roman Alphabet. Russian speaking people use the Cyrillic Alphabet. The A is the same. The B looks different.
Missionaries from the Byzantine Empire
The Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 10th Century.
cyrillic ... The two monks were two brothers from Thessaloniki, Cyril and Methodius, missionaries for the Orthodox Church, later canonized and given the epithet isapostolos (iso-apostole :equal to the apostoles).
russia was influenced by culture diffusion
The modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet and contains 33 letters.
Cyrillic alphabet
'Please' in Russian Cyrillic alphabet is written as "пожалуйста".
The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with the addition of several characters from the Hebrew alphabet.
It is currently written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
Yes, they use a completely different alphabet called "Cyrillic". It is a mixture of Greek and Hebrew letters. Russians spell (for the most part) phonetically because writing was introduced to them by Greek Orthodox missionaries long after their language had formed. If you Google 'Cyrillic alphabet', Google images will show you a pretty decent chart of the alphabet. :) Russians use more letters than English does. (English uses the Latin alphabet, by the way.) Russians use Arabic numerals, just like English speakers.